There is likely enough good news in Friday’s jobs report to keep the Federal Reserve on track to scale back its monthly bond buying by another $10 billion to $55 billion at its March 18-19 policy meeting.

Fed officials have made clear in the past few weeks that their bar to veering from this course is high. It’s a point that New York Fed President William Dudley emphasized in an interview with The Wall Street Journal Thursday.

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